Volume 128, Issue 37 pp. 11295-11299
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A Bispidine Iron(IV)–Oxo Complex in the Entatic State

Prof. Dr. Peter Comba

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Prof. Dr. Peter Comba

Universität Heidelberg, Anorganisch-Chemisches Institut und Interdisziplinäres Zentrum für Wissenschaftliches Rechnen (IWR), INF 270, 69120 Heidelberg, Germany

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Prof. Dr. Shunichi Fukuzumi

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Prof. Dr. Shunichi Fukuzumi

Department of Chemistry and Nano Science, Ewha Womans University, Seoul, 120-750 Korea

Faculty of Science and Engineering, Meijo University, Nagoya, Aichi, 468-8502 Japan

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Carsten Koke

Carsten Koke

Universität Heidelberg, Anorganisch-Chemisches Institut und Interdisziplinäres Zentrum für Wissenschaftliches Rechnen (IWR), INF 270, 69120 Heidelberg, Germany

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Dr. Bodo Martin

Dr. Bodo Martin

Universität Heidelberg, Anorganisch-Chemisches Institut und Interdisziplinäres Zentrum für Wissenschaftliches Rechnen (IWR), INF 270, 69120 Heidelberg, Germany

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Dr. Anna-Maria Löhr

Dr. Anna-Maria Löhr

Universität Heidelberg, Anorganisch-Chemisches Institut und Interdisziplinäres Zentrum für Wissenschaftliches Rechnen (IWR), INF 270, 69120 Heidelberg, Germany

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Johannes Straub

Johannes Straub

Universität Heidelberg, Anorganisch-Chemisches Institut und Interdisziplinäres Zentrum für Wissenschaftliches Rechnen (IWR), INF 270, 69120 Heidelberg, Germany

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First published: 28 July 2016
Citations: 9

Abstract

For a series of FeIV=O complexes with tetra- and pentadentate bispidine ligands, the correlation of their redox potentials with reactivity, involving a variety of substrates for alkane hydroxylation (HAT), alkene epoxidation, and phosphine and thioether oxidation (OAT) are reported. The redox potentials span approximately 350 mV and the reaction rates over 8 orders of magnitude. From the experimental data and in comparison with published studies it emerges that electron transfer and the driving force are of major importance, and this is also supported by the DFT-based computational analysis. The striking difference of reactivity of two isomeric systems with pentadentate bispidines is found to be due to a destabilization of the S=1 ground state of one of the ferryl isomers, and this is supported by the experimentally determined redox potentials and published stability constants with a series of first-row transition metal ions with these two isomeric ligands.

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